Dutch Manuscripts

an armorial of c.1600 containing 160 emblazoned coats of arms of knights of the Golden Fleece (Dutch ms 6)

two fifteenth-century Horae in the translation of Geert Groote (Dutch mss 8 and 12)

a devotional manuscript containing a translation of De Imitatione Christi, the life and miracles of St Barbara, and sermons, fifteenth-sixteenth centuries (Dutch ms 9)

a copy of the Martyrology of Usuard, written in 1472 for the nuns of St Lucy, Amsterdam (Dutch ms 10)1

communion prayers and devotions, mid-fifteenth century (Dutch ms 13)

1Usuard, a Benedictine monk in the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, who is said to have died around 875-7, was the author of a martyrology widely used throughout the Middle Ages: André Vauchez et al. (eds), Encylopedia of the Middle Ages (Cambridge, 2000), vol. 2, p. 1490.

Finding aids

F. Taylor, Supplementary Handlist of Western Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library (Manchester, 1937), pp. 31-4.